Throughout history there is nothing new about people having thought and commented that their former days they remember were somehow much better in various identifiable ways than what has subsequently become their new realities in life. Such views are often dismissed or relegated by others to sentimental nostalgia of older folk who have an emotional bond with their earlier days and ways, or perhaps because such people simply can’t adapt very well to the various changes brought about by the many things involved in modern living. However, honestly comparing past times and conditions to the present doesn’t have to be about those factors. It can just as well be a necessary honest and objective evaluation, which rightly calls for a recovery of very valuable lost things.
I wrote this song several years ago as an expression of my own lifelong contemplations about the now all too widely abandoned and replaced values and daily realities of life experienced by me and my contemporaries who grew up in commonly conservative America during the times now called the “happy days” of the late 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Losing or replacing proven good and extremely valuable ageless things of life with less worthy or even destructive ideas and ways of living is no benefit at all to anyone. Everyone involved in any degradations of life and culture is disaffected and harmed by it. I know I’m not alone in wanting to help restore any and all of those things of life and culture which are good for people by honoring and obeying God.
So I hope you’ll enjoy this song and through it will hear a call to recapture and restore good and precious things now being replaced. If you identify at all with the message, please freely pass it on to others so they can listen and do the same.
— Terry Parks
